And, since Ezra Levant was mentioned, let me note that his own attitudes in this respect, and those of his wretched hangers-on, adumbrate the fate of the disabled under Flanagan's cure-all free enterprise regime.

Hence, there was not really any late modem triumph of science over magic, so much as there was a natural dissolution of the latter into the former, as the power of science to accomplish what magic could only adumbrate became progressively more obvious.

Those figures you adumbrate to support your point include AMs who live 6 hours away from Cardiff, or 300 miles, or whatever, so perforce one thing the figures doin;t actually show is that they're, as you claim , 'at the trough'.